The Bounty

What next?

‘That poor lass. She won’t be seeing her parents again, maybe if she comes back one day she’ll see ‘em’ Fergo thought as he went out on deck. “It’ll be mornin’ soon.” He says aloud to known in particular. Walking to the captains courters be bumps into Maxims “Fergo what we going to do? How are we going to raise a ten year old girl? I have no experience in such things and I bet you a piece of gold, neither do you.” “Well we’ll just have to figure somthin’ out.”Fergo replied trying to sound hopeful but he new that he was also trying to convince himself that they can do it, even though they have no idea of what lies ahead , and no idea of what to do. “So where are we going?” Maxims says changing the subject.”We’re headed to Tortuga.” Fergo says proudly “Are you insane?   We can’t take Ferexo there! That’s a pirate port and last time we went there Borodas nearly killed us! That place is no place for a child either many things could happen. What are we gonna do then?!” Maxims replied and pushed past Fergo and to his station mumbling curses.

Fergo turned around frowning but continued on his way to his courters .Pushing through the door he thought for a minute and realized that Maxims was indeed right, but he had to go there. He had to find his necklace, well not really so much the necklace but the object attached to it. And the person who has it is in Tortuga, or so he has heard. Walking toward his table he sat down on the chair and took out the map he had stolen, well taken since the man was dead to begin with. Looking at the map, Fergo saw that it was no ordinary map, not that any treasure map ever is, but this one was different. It led to a pair of shoes, but not just any shoes, golden shoes, the exact shoes that Cinderella wore to the ball. Ya we all know that she got the shoes back and married the prince,  but someone stole them just a few days later and, they where never seen again…

Fergo remembered that tail all to well, he heard his mother tell it to his sister countess times as bedtime stories, but he never thought he would actually go looking for them.

He was tired, you could see it on his face. He hadn’t slept in three days and he decided he had to sleep now or he would pass out on deck in the morn. So he rested his head on the table and closed his eyes, it didn’t take him long to fall asleep.

The sun had come up a few hours ago. Up on deck pirates where cleaning the wood of the ship, the captain was giving orders, the wind was blowing lightly toward the east, all in all it was a calm day and a good day for sailing. Ferexo came out on deck, she squinted her eyes when she saw the sun but got use to it she tried looking out of her right eye because her left eye was having black spots, the entire left side of her face was pounding, but she couldn’t remember if she had gotten hurt or if she probably just ran into something. Looking around she saw the captain and walked toward him, tripping a few times, she finally got to the captain and said “Mister, I can’t see so well out of my left eye, is there something wrong with it?” Fergo looked toward her and gasped “Tim, come take the wheel. Exo come with me.” Taking her hand in his, he led her to the doctor on the ship.

“Rile! Where are ya?!” Fergo shouted. The pain in Ferexo’s eye was overwalming when she bumped into Fergos back that she passed out just as a man came out wearing grey clothes.

“Oi! C capin’ whos that pretty thing on the floor then?” Rile said eyeing the little girl on the floor. Fergo turned around and saw Ferexo lying on the floor unconscious, he quickly bent down, picked her up and said “Rile, can ya fix ‘er up? She got a scar that looks infected and she said she can’t see so well out of ‘er left eye.”  “Put ‘er on the bed, I’ll see what I can do.” Rile said. Walking over to the bed, he laid her down gently. Turning to Rile he said “Please do everything you can, we can’t lose ‘er.” And walked out.

Walking over to the bed Rile saw the big scar running from the right side of her forehead to the bottom of her jaw. Taking out his medicine box, he disinfected the scar and later started stitching it up. Opening her eye he saw that a lot of damage had been done to it so he took a deep breath. He knew he was a wizard but he didn’t think that it would do any good, but he had to try. Walking back toward the bed he thought of healing the eye so he did the movements he saw a healer once did to heal up a soldier’s eye and repeated the words she had said. A golden light shone from her closed eye as Rile fell to the floor, he had used too much of this power and he didn’t know what would happen next.

A few days passed and they grew closer to Tortuga, but Ferexo was still unconscious. Fergo and Maxims where starting to get really worried about her, but they didn’t know what to do. Rile was taking good care of her, always cleaning the wound and hoping that she would be okay.

A day before they arrived in Tortuga Ferexo woke up to Rile cleaning her face. “Hello love. Minames Riley but everyone just calls me Rile. I’ve been taking care of you for these few days you where out.” Ferexo looked around and felt that something was strange in her left eye. “umm, mister what’s on my eye? It feels strange.” Rile looked into her eyes and saw that her left eye was starting to change colour. It was a gold colour with a silver swirl as a pupil. “Well you see love, your eye is this strange colour and you got a big scar on ya face.” He took out a mirror and showed her.

She had one blue eye, one gold with a silver swirl, a big scar running across her face and long silver hair running down her back in knots and tangles.

“Ha,ha,ha,ha!”The drunken pirates laughed as they drank and danced. Ferexo , now at the age of seventeen  was sitting in a dark corner drinking a glass of rum. She was waiting for Fergo and Max to finish finding some new recruits since they lost most of the crew the last time they went looking for treasure, they had touched evil, umm magical treasure that should not be touched, the poor morons.

“Heya. Can I sit here?” a man asked “Well it’s a free country isn’t it?” She replied. “Well ya got a point there” he said taking a seat across her. “So, you from round these parts?””Does it look like I’m from around these parts to you?” Ferexo replied with a hint of sarcasm in the question, “Well, not really. So you waiting for someone or your gal probably?” Ferexo smiled at this ‘gal’ ya right. “No, I’m waiting for some friends to finish assembling a new crew.” “A crew hum? You  like the captain or something?” the guy asked “First mate.” “That’s really impressive. I’m a blacksmith by the way.” “That’s great even though I didn’t even want to know. So why are you here?”  She asked getting irritated with the man. “I was forced by my friends to come talk to you. One in a while we see you sittin’ here, but you’re always wearing a hood over ya face, ya hardly talk to anyone and well, known of the people ever hang out here.” “Hey Exo where going come!” Max yelled over the noise. Everything went quite when the heard the name, Ferexo stood up, dropped a few coins and walked toward the door followed by Max and Fergo.

The man’s face looked priceless , he had just talked to Exo the most feared pirate. Once in a while there was a survivor that told of this man who fought with such strength and they would show the people the ‘X’ and ’O’  on some part of their body, but a few weeks later that person would turn up dead with a black hole in the place of their heart. Everyone with half a brain would know to stay away from that man.

“Man did you see the look on those people’s faces when I yelled for Exo to come?! And the poor soul sitting in front of her looked like he’d seen a ghost!” Max coughed out through his laughter. Ferexo shock her head at the two who where finding it hard to breath as they laughed. Walking onto the ship followed by the new crew they got to work immediately   Ferexo smiled when she saw Zach and Zack she walked closer to them being very quite when she was behind them she shouted “Well, well, well, what have we got here?””Exo!” they shouted turning around and hugged her “How’s it going my beautiful friend?” Zack asked “Well moron I am your only beautiful friend so good.” “How would you know?  What about Zach?” “ I don’t think it appropriate for you to call me beautiful. I would gladly go for handsome, sexy, hot any of the above.” Zach replied smugly Ferexo rolled her eyes and said “Tell me something useful.” “Well my little elf friend as a matter of fact we do. A king wants to see you.” Zack said. “A king? But why would a king want to see me? How has he even heard of me?” She replied. “We don’t know, but if you go there might be a big cash prize, and we could certainly use that.” Zach said nodding his head. “That’s true. So when do I have to be at the castle?” “Within five days love. And, it’s King Cowden.” Fergo said laughing. Ferexo rolled her eyes ‘Oh these royal morons. The think they can always tell us when to what. Last time I didn’t want to go to King Tomas and his guards came and dragged me all the way to him, well more like carried. Not an event I want to repeat’ Ferexo thought knowing exactly why Fergo was laughing. Most times when she got summoned it was something very important and had a lot of money behind it, she was a bounty hunter after all.